Chocolate Covered Cherry Wine recipe! Ever have one of those cordial cherries? The ones with a chocolate coating and a cherry inside floating in liqueur? Yeah, we made THAT in a wine.
According to CandyFavorites.com, chocolate cherry cordials were first developed in the 1700’s under the alternative name of griottes. Griottes are from the Franche-Comte region of France. They consisted of sour griotte cherries enclosed in a chocolate casing.
In France, the idea of adding alcohol to griottes did not exist. But when griottes made their way over to the United States, Americans had the idea of soaking the cherries in alcoholic liqueurs, adding another layer of flavor — and appeal — to the candies.
So, we made a Chocolate Covered Cherry Wine and it’s fantastic. Do you like chocolate, and cherries, and you want them in a wine? You should make this.
Ingredients:
1 gallon (3.785 L) Cherry Juice: https://amzn.to/48GNIU4
10 grams Fermaid O: https://amzn.to/4aBqlMS
1/2 teaspoon Wine Tannin: https://amzn.to/3RNquod
1 pkg Lalvin 71B: https://amzn.to/3twWdCl
Additions:
1/2 Vanilla Bean: https://amzn.to/48lEqwP
6 Tablespoons Crio Bru: https://amzn.to/3TPYbrY
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract: https://amzn.to/3vog9b0
Back sweeten with sugar to specific gravity reading of 1.034
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